Today’s featured deal is especially useful for the chef in your household who is looking to make the “perfectly” cooked steak! Made from solid steel and silicone, it’s a great addition to your culinary arsenal. With the ability to record very precise temperatures, you will no longer need to play the guessing game when cooking your next meal. The Range Smart Thermometer is now on sale at 14% off! It’s a great deal that will run you only 59.95 – instead of its standard price of $70.

Who doesn’t like great iPad apps? At iPad Insight we definitely do. With that in mind, we offer up a quick review of an excellent iPad app, or a few great iPad apps, here each week.

Our picks for Best iPad App of the Week are published here every week. Check out all out picks below and you’ll soon have a collection of stellar apps for your favorite tablet.

This week’s pick is Angry Birds 2 by Rovio Entertainment. With the sequel to one of the most popular mobile games ever released it’s all about the extras. Rovio has added new multi-stage levels, bigger and better slingshot gameplay, Pig boss battles and a big improvements to the graphics engine. Are these improvements enough for you to download this epic sequel?

To use Apple services you need to start with an Apple ID. Your Apple ID is based on an email address you would like to associate with your account. Your Apple ID is your gateway to adding all kinds of content to your iPad, including Music, Apps, Movies, and Books. When you set-up your Apple ID you have the option to also use the same ID for your iCloud services account. However, this isn’t a requirement. You can also choose to set-up one Apple ID for for iCloud services, and a separate account for your iTunes, App Store, and iBook Store purchases.

Confused yet? Apple recommends creating one ID for both services to eliminate some of the confusion. They caution that using multiple Apple IDs might be confusing and might cause issues with accessing purchased content or using some services. However, in the event that you still want to keep your services separate, he is a quick and dirty how-to.

I’m now responsible for a number of Instagram accounts at my day job, and so I’ve been the lookout for apps that can manage multiple accounts, simultaneously. Given the popularity of the service, I’m surprised how difficult this task has actually been.
Hootsuite would have been my first choice because it can handle Twitter and Facebook. I can customize each brand into a tab, and each tab can have several panes for tweets, direct messages, or searches for specific hashtags. Unfortunately, I quickly learned that Hootsuite has no access to Instagram.

The next app I decided to try was Grab for Instagram. It’s a free download with no in-app purchases, and although it won’t let me post images or video due to API restrictions, it does support multiple logins. I can use the sidebar to switch between accounts, check on engagement rates, and repost images that are deemed on-brand.

So far I’m liking Grab for Instagram, but not loving it. I’d really like for the app to save my logged accounts through iCloud so that my iPhone and iPad stayed nicely in sync. Having to log in to the corporate accounts twice — once on my iPhone and once again on the iPad — just feels pointless when I’m using the same app on both devices. However, until I find something better, Grab for Instagram will have to do.

[If anyone has any recommendations for great Instagram-compatible apps on the iPad, I’d be all ears.]

Today’s featured deal is especially useful for the DIY individuals in your life who love to tinker with their electronic devices and perform their own repairs. When it comes to repairs on our mobile devices, most people don’t think they are qualified to do it themselves. While that’s true for some, one of the best ways to gain confidence and be successful is to have a great set of tools. The iFixIt Pro Tech Screwdriver & Jimmy Tool Bundle is now on sale at 39% off! It’s a great deal that will run you only 59.95 – instead of its standard price of $100.

Background App Refresh was introduced with iOS 7 two years ago, but I’ve found that it only seems to work about 50% of the time for me. I still see many of my apps — e.g. Reeder, 2Do, Evernote — syncing upon startup, when they should have already loaded most of the data in the background. The issue here is the way iOS asks users to simply trust how it will balance the load of background tasks, when it should really allow us to prioritize specific apps that we always want to keep up-to-date.

That’s why the latest blog post from 2Do has me excited. Push Sync is promising faster syncing that pushes changes from my iPad straight to the iPhone, moments after I’ve made a change, and regardless of what syncing service I use for my tasks. You can bet I’ll be testing this new feature out when it hits the App Store in two weeks.

Security–it’s on our minds more than ever before. It seems like there isn’t a week that goes by where we don’t hear about some new exploit that allows someone to hack your most personal information. With our mobile devices containing more of this information with each new iteration, we need to stand up, take notice and do something about it. Through our own due diligence we can monitor some of this information. But what about our devices? What can we do to keep our iPads, and our data more secure?

Today’s featured deal is especially useful for those who love to read non-fiction books, but might not have the time it takes to invest in reading as much as they would like. Enter Blinkist Premium–a more convenient way to get insight into what the next book on your reading wish-list is about. Whether or not you use the convenient “blinks” to get a summary of books curated just for you, there are over a thousand to choose from with options to blink notes across all your devices. This exclusive Blinkist Premium One Year Subscription is now on sale at 62% off! It’s a great deal that will run you only 29.99 – instead of its standard price of $80.

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Finding time to read isn’t easy. Enter the “blink”: a convenient summary of a nonfiction book’s key ideas. Blinkist Premium offers subscribers a library of nonfiction books each distilled into a series of blinks, making it possible to absorb all of a work’s key points in about 15 minutes. You’ll quickly get caught up on your reading list and be the life of the intellectual party at your next gathering!

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I read some great news from @Ticci of MacStories earlier today. Apple’s latest beta, iOS 9 b4, has solved a problem that has been plaguing developers for a few years now. Many excited tech fans — including yours truly — will flock to each new iOS beta as it’s released over the course of the summer. However, these betas are just that: software that is still undergoing testing. It isn’t ready for primetime yet, even though 80-90% of the features may be working.

The issue has been that people who sign up for the betas don’t always realize this, and they’ll leave a slew of damaging 1-star reviews for apps on the App Store. The developers are unable to address the reported bugs because they can’t issue updates that use beta code until the official release of iOS in the Fall. As a result, the 1-star reviews were left to stand, and there was little that the developers could do about this.

Thankfully, as of iOS 9 b4, whenever you try to leave an app review, you’ll be confronted with the screenshot I’ve included above. This change was almost certainly a result of developer and community feedback, and it’s great to see that Apple has listened.

Today’s featured is an amazing deal for those looking to expand on their programming expertise–specifically, Swift for iOS. For the next 7 days you can sign-up to build 10 apps and get a head start on developing for iOS 9. This exclusive iOS 9 Swift Coding Course is now on sale at 80% off! It’s a great deal that will run you only 59.99 – instead of its standard price of $299.

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I’ve been using the charger that came with my iPad Air 2, but it has only one USB port, whereas I carry four devices on me on a daily basis: my iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, and Sony camera. I charge most of my gadgets on a daily basis, and although I have enough power at home, it becomes a bit of a hassle when I’m outside.

It’s just a little bigger than the tiny cube charger that comes with iPhones, but its prongs can fold in. But that alone wouldn’t be enough reason to buy another charger.

The real draw of the ChargeTech is its dual USB port, both of which feature 2.4A of power. That means this little charger is able to provide enough power for two iPads, simultaneously. That feature, combined with the amazingly small size, has me absolutely sold on this product.

I’m picking up two right now: one for me and another for my dad. Expect a review in the coming weeks, once I’ve had a little time to test.